Cheapest€57.37
- Airlink (SAA) AS519818:471h 17m20:04Cape Town CPTGqeberha PLZ
Door to door 4h 27mCO2 168.0 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Cape Town to Port Elizabeth flight
Flights from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth start at €62.09 and take 4h 27m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Cape Town to Port Elizabeth on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Flights from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth starts at €62.09 and takes 4h 27m door to door, run by 3 operators over 683 km, with around 12 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 4h 27mDoor to door
- 1h 17mMoving
- €62.09 to €115.78From
- 06:06 to 18:52First and last departure
- 12Per day
- 168.0 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€62.09 to €115.78 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €106.34Tue15
- about €115.78Wed16
- about €113.42Thu17
- about €110.47Fri18
- about €115.78Sat19
- about €111.65Sun20
- about €72.71Mon21
- about €70.35Tue22
- about €75.07Wed23
- about €93.36Thu24
- about €86.87Fri25
- about €92.18Sat26
- about €82.74Sun27
- about €62.09Mon28
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026
Airlines
| Operator | From |
|---|---|
| Airlink (SAA) | €57.37 |
 British Airways | €62.09 |
| Safair | €61.50 |
The flight gets you into Port Elizabeth. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Port Elizabeth for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Cape Town to Port Elizabeth
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €68.5890 days
- €57.3760 days
- €65.0445 days
- €53.2430 days
- €57.3721 days
- €62.0914 days
- €72.717 days
- €113.423 days
- €106.341 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €53.24.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 113 percent. The dearest point is €113.42, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €82.74Sun
- €62.09Mon
- €70.35Tue
- €75.07Wed
- €93.36Thu
- €86.87Fri
- €92.18Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Cape Town
Air
- CPT
Gqeberha
Air
- PLZ
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 82% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 18% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 683 km against 663 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Oudtshoorn, George, Paarl, Stellenbosch. The gap between arriving and leaving is 70 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Cape Town at 06:06 and the last at 18:52, across 12 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Flights against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 27m | 1h 17m | 3h 10m | €62.09 | 168.0 kg | 12 |
| Train | 5h 22m | 4h 38m | 44m | €72.94 | 21.9 kg | 10 |
Questions about Cape Town to Port Elizabeth
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth take?
The Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth takes 4h 27m door to door, of which 1h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 683 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth cost?
The Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth starts at €62.09 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €63.27. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth?
3 operators run the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth: Airlink (SAA), British Airways, Safair. Between them they file around 12 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth use?
The Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth leaves from Cape Town CPT and arrives at Gqeberha PLZ. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Is the Flight the best way from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth?
The Flight is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, at €62.09 and 4h 27m door to door, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. On this route there is no trade to make between the money and the hours.
When should I book the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth?
Fares for the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €53.24. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 113 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth produce?
The Flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth produces about 168.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 683 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Cape Town to Port Elizabeth on 14 September 2026: 683 km of route against 663 km in a straight line, 12 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €62.09, and 4h 27m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
Port Elizabeth is large, and the road in from PLZ can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Port Elizabeth
Settled in advance, so the ride into Port Elizabeth costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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